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We perform mean-field study of possible magnetic instabilities in Dirac semimetals. We find that Dirac electrons naturally host antiferromagnetic or spin density wave ground states, though their specific configurations may vary depending on…

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This paper is devoted to a study of relativistic eigenstates of Dirac particles which are simultaneously bound by a static Coulomb potential and added linear confining potentials. It has recently been shown that, despite the addition of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-09 J. H. Noble , U. D. Jentschura

We discuss the behaviour of external fields that interact with a Dirac neutral particle with a permanent electric dipole moment in order to achieve relativistic bound states solutions in a noninertial frame and in the presence of a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-11-30 Knut Bakke

It is shown that it is possible to consistently and gauge invariantly formulate models where the coupling constant is a non trivial function of a scalar field . In the $U(1)$ case the coupling to the gauge field contains a term of the form…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 E. I. Guendelman , R. Steiner

The present article discusses magnetic confinement of the Dirac excitations in graphene in presence of inhomogeneous magnetic fields. In the first case a magnetic field directed along the z axis whose magnitude is proportional to $1/r$ is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Pratim Roy , Tarun Kanti Ghosh , Kaushik Bhattacharya

The effect of the Dirac cone tilt of anisotropic two-dimensional materials on the time evolution of coherent electron states in the presence of electric and magnetic fields is studied. We propose a canonical transformation that maps the…

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In this work we provide a novel class of degenerate solutions to the Dirac equation for massive particles, where the rotation of the spin of the particles is synchronized with the rotation of the magnetic field of the wave-like…

We investigate theoretically the dynamics of magnetization coupled to the surface Dirac fermions of a three dimensional topological insulator, by deriving the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) equation in the presence of charge current. Both…

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We employ the polar decomposition of the Dirac field to describe it as an effective spinorial fluid. We then construct a $(1+1+2)$ covariant formalism for the Dirac field that avoids the introduction of tetrad fields and Clifford matrices.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-12 Stefano Vignolo , Giuseppe De Maria , Sante Carloni , Luca Fabbri

The Dirac equation for an electron in two spatial dimensions in the Coulomb and homogeneous magnetic fields is discussed. For weak magnetic fields, the approximate energy values are obtained by semiclassical method. In the case with strong…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Choon-Lin Ho , V. R. Khalilov

We present a semiclassical analysis for Dirac fields on an arbitrary spacetime background and in the presence of a fixed electromagnetic field. Our approach is based on a Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin approximation, and the results are analyzed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-16 Marius A. Oancea , Achal Kumar

There are constructed exact solutions of the quantum-mechanical Dirac equation for a spin S=1/2 particle in Riemannian space of constant negative curvature, hyperbolic Lobachevsky space, in presence of an external magnetic field, analogue…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-08-30 E. M. Ovsiyuk , V. V. Kisel , V. M. Red'kov

It is of keen interest to researchers understanding different approaches to confine massless Dirac fermions in graphene, which is also a central problem in making electronic devices based on graphene. Here, we studied spatial confinement,…

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Using scanning tunneling spectroscopy we have measured the response of Dirac electrons in a magnetic field to the presence of a well-defined smoothly varying 1D periodic potential. We find that the lower index Landau level energies reliably…

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We study the influence of a strong imaginary vector potential on the quantum mechanics of particles confined to a two-dimensional plane and propagating in a random impurity potential. We show that the wavefunctions of the non-Hermitian…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-30 Christopher Mudry , B. D. Simons , Alexander Altland

A generalized algebra of noncommutative coordinates and momenta embracing non-Abelian gauge fields is proposed. Through a two-dimensional realization of this algebra for a gauge field including electromagnetic vector potential and two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-20 Omer F. Dayi , Ahmed Jellal

We show that the energy spectrum of the one-dimensional Dirac equation in the presence of a spatial confining point interaction exhibits a resonant behavior when one includes a weak electric field. After solving the Dirac equation in terms…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Luis Gonzalez-Diaz , Victor M. Villalba

We consider the tilting instability of a magnetically confined spheromak using 3D MHD and relativistic PIC calculations with an application to astrophysical plasmas, specifically those occurring in magnetar magnetospheres. The instability…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Riddhi Mehta , Maxim Barkov , Lorenzo Sironi , Maxim Lyutikov

We obtain the solution of the Dirac equation in (2+1) dimensions in the presence of a constant magnetic field normal to the plane together with a two-dimensional Dirac-oscillator potential coupling. We study the energy spectrum of graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Abdelhadi Belouad , Ahmed Jellal , Youness Zahidi